About three-fifths of those beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU were reported by: Germany (1 235 960 people; 28.9% of total EU), Poland (955 110; 22.3%) and Czechia (369 330; 8.6%).
In relative terms, the number of temporary protection beneficiaries relative to the EU population was 9.5 per thousand people at the end of November 2023. Among the EU Member States, the highest ratios were observed in Czechia (34.1), Bulgaria (26.3), Estonia (26.3), Lithuania (26.1), Poland (26.0) and Latvia (23.1), which has officially provided refuge to 43,565 persons.
Compared with the end of October 2023, the number of beneficiaries increased by 36 620 across the EU (+0.9 %). The highest increases were observed in Germany (+20 595; +1.7%), Czechia (+4 880; +1.3%), and Norway (+4 180; +6.9%), whereas a decline was recorded only in four countries, namely Poland (-5 510 people; -0.6%), Italy (-160 people; -0.1%), France (-125 people; -0.2%), and Luxembourg (-15 people; -0.4%).
During the third quarter of 2023, 257 370 decisions granted temporary protection to people having fled Ukraine in EU Member States. Compared with the second quarter of 2023, the number of decisions decreased by 1.1 %. A decline of the quarterly number of decisions granting temporary protection was observed in 15 EU Member States. In absolute terms, the sharpest declines in the number of decisions during the second quarter of 2023 were recorded in Germany (-4 315, -5.3 %), Latvia (-4 570, -72.0 %) and Romania (-3 165, -29.4 %).
